TRILUX: The Smart Parking Garage Revolution

Saving energy, complying with guidelines, improving the atmosphere - parking garage operators are currently under pressure in numerous areas. TRILUX shows what is important in detail and how operators can use the challenging framework conditions to future-proof their parking garage with the white paper “Smart Parking - how the future parks”.

The white paper is available free of charge at https://www.trilux.com/whitepaper-smart-parking.  

Pressure to Act: The Financial and Legal Framework Conditions

Due to the high energy costs and the increasingly stringent legal framework conditions (lamp ban, eco-design, and RoHS directive), the refurbishment of conventional parking garage lighting is inevitable sooner or later. However, in addition to the energy and legal framework conditions, operators should also take factors such as the user experience and future viability into account when refurbishing. Smart and networked lighting is a key lever for advancing the parking garage in all areas of activity. Refurbishing conventional uncontrolled lighting with smart LED technology and lighting management reduces energy consumption by up to 85 percent. At the same time, the atmosphere and sense of security can be significantly improved through lighting control.

Atmosphere: Creating a Positive Parking Garage Experience

Parking garages are not just functional inner-city architecture - they also have a representative value. The parking garage is often the first point of contact when visiting a city, whether for tourism, business, or shopping. This makes lighting an important image-defining factor. High lighting quality with uniform and glare-free illumination of all parking garage areas is essential for an attractive customer experience. The robust TRILUX Aragon Fit LED
moisture-proof luminaire is perfect for this application. It keeps operating costs permanently low with an efficiency of up to 180 lm/W and provides attractive light in all parking garage areas thanks to an enormous selection of lighting technologies and optics. Existing light points can often even be refurbished 1:1 without new lighting design or conversion work.

Lighting Management: Reduce Costs, but Not the Sense of Security

Even if it is still not part of standard planning, lighting management is worthwhile in most parking garages. This is because sensor-based control can significantly reduce the energy consumption of lighting compared to uncontrolled solutions. And networking is quick and easy with systems such as LiveLink - if DALI control lines are not available, wireless is also an option. It is important that the user's sense of security is not compromised by the sensor control. This is why solutions such as LiveLink SwarmSens offer smart functions such as pre-running light.  If a person enters the detection area of a sensor, not only is the corresponding luminaire activated, but also neighboring light points. This creates a “light corridor” that accompanies users on their way through the parking garage. In addition, the networked lighting can be conveniently controlled and monitored via the cloud using services such as the TRILUX Monitoring Service. This lays the foundation for innovative applications such as predictive maintenance.

Digitalization: IoT Makes Parking Garages Future-Proof

Parking garage lighting takes the next step when it is used as infrastructure for IoT applications. This is why most TRILUX moisture-proof luminaires have open interfaces that can be used to integrate IoT modules into the lighting network. Classic IoT modules used in parking garages include Wi-Fi routers for cell phone reception in the underground car park, cameras, sensors that measure pollutants and loudspeakers for pleasant background music. However, more complex applications such as location-based services can also be implemented using lighting. For example, a combination of proximity marketing and indoor navigation is attractive for shopping centers with a connected parking garage. Customers receive a push message about special offers or promotions in the center on their mobile phone - and are then directed to the relevant stores even without a GPS signal.  

Opportunities and Potential: Smart Parking Whitepaper

TRILUX has summarized what is important for future-proof parking garage lighting in the white paper “Smart Parking - the smart parking of the future”. The white paper can be requested free of charge from TRLIUX and deals with the topics of efficiency and longevity through LED technology, DALI and lighting management, the potential of the cloud, the possibilities of differentiating oneself from the competition through lighting as well as issues relating to digitalization and future-proofing.

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About TRILUX

TRILUX SIMPLIFY YOUR LIGHT represents the simplest and most reliable path to customised, energy-efficient and future-proof lighting solutions. In the dynamic and ever increasingly complex lighting market, customers are provided with optimal advice, ideal orientation and perfect light. To ensure this, TRILUX offers a wide portfolio of technologies and services as well as high-performance partners and companies in the TRILUX Group. The lighting specialist combines single components to create custom-designed complete solutions – always perfectly tailored to the customer’s requirements and specific applications. In this way, complex and extensive projects can be simply and rapidly implemented from a single supplier. According to the principle of SIMPLIFY YOUR LIGHT, simple planning, installation and ease of use is focused on for customers in addition to quality and efficiency.

The TRILUX Group has six production facilities in Europe and Asia and supports international customers via 30 subsidiaries and a large number of sales partners. The light business division consists of the brands TRILUX SIMPLIFY YOUR LIGHT, Oktalite, Ansorg and Zalux. Associated company is ICT. With locations in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Poland, and Spain, the TRILUX Akademie provides essential know-how on topics, trends, and innovations in the lighting industry. The company’s headquarters are located in Arnsberg.

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